Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Azure 101 20 38
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.85% 7.35% 8.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.15% 25.32% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 17 33
10th Percentile £372 £475 £185
25th Percentile £450 £481 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £569 £556 £619
90th Percentile £688 £650 £1,088
Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +0.73% -4.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 372 79 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.66% 29.04% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 59 86
10th Percentile £325 £393 £250
25th Percentile £413 £470 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £599
90th Percentile £613 £650 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +0.15% -2.75% -4.76%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -4 98 £500 -3.85% 32
Doncaster - 2 £525 - 7
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.94%) Confluence
2 5 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) CICS
3 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.99%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.99%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 69 (68.32%) AWS
2 64 (63.37%) GCP
3 20 (19.80%) Entra ID
4 14 (13.86%) OpenShift
5 10 (9.90%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (8.91%) GitHub
7 8 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.92%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.93%) SaaS
9 5 (4.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.95%) OneDrive
10 4 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.96%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.96%) ChatGPT
11 3 (2.97%) Akamai
11 3 (2.97%) Cloudflare
11 3 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.97%) Serverless
12 2 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.87%) Firewall
2 8 (7.92%) DNS
3 6 (5.94%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.95%) VPN
5 4 (3.96%) HTTP
5 4 (3.96%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.97%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.98%) Network Security
7 2 (1.98%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.98%) SSL
7 2 (1.98%) VSAN
8 1 (0.99%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.99%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.99%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.99%) VLAN
8 1 (0.99%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.92%) Power BI
3 6 (5.94%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.95%) MySQL
5 4 (3.96%) Metadata
5 4 (3.96%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.97%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.98%) DataStage
7 2 (1.98%) DB2
7 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.99%) Redis
8 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.99%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (28.71%) Jenkins
2 24 (23.76%) JIRA
3 23 (22.77%) GitLab
4 13 (12.87%) Selenium
5 11 (10.89%) Cucumber
5 11 (10.89%) Postman
5 11 (10.89%) REST Assured
6 7 (6.93%) Git
7 5 (4.95%) TestRail
8 4 (3.96%) Gatling
8 4 (3.96%) JMeter
8 4 (3.96%) LoadRunner
8 4 (3.96%) NeoLoad
9 3 (2.97%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.98%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.98%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.99%) JUnit
11 1 (0.99%) Maven
11 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (46.53%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.77%) Finance
3 19 (18.81%) Banking
4 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Law
6 4 (3.96%) Legal
7 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.99%) Police
9 1 (0.99%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (15.84%) Architect
2 15 (14.85%) Lead
3 9 (8.91%) Test Automation Engineer
3 9 (8.91%) Test Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Developer
5 7 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Automation Test Lead
6 6 (5.94%) Senior
7 5 (4.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Consultant
7 5 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.96%) Analyst
8 4 (3.96%) Lead Architect
8 4 (3.96%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.96%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.96%) Test Architect
8 4 (3.96%) Test Automation Architect
8 4 (3.96%) Test Leader
9 3 (2.97%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.75%) REST
2 23 (22.77%) LDAP
3 21 (20.79%) OpenID
4 16 (15.84%) SailPoint
5 8 (7.92%) Middleware
5 8 (7.92%) OAuth
6 7 (6.93%) .NET
6 7 (6.93%) SAML
7 5 (4.95%) Kafka
8 4 (3.96%) Hugging Face
8 4 (3.96%) JSON
8 4 (3.96%) OpenCV
8 4 (3.96%) Playwright
8 4 (3.96%) PyTorch
8 4 (3.96%) Regular Expression
8 4 (3.96%) SpaCy
8 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.96%) TensorFlow
8 4 (3.96%) XML
9 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.91%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.93%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.93%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.96%) IoT
6 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.97%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.98%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.98%) Replication
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.99%) PDA
8 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.89%) Linux
2 8 (7.92%) Windows
3 4 (3.96%) Unix
4 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.98%) VMS
5 1 (0.99%) CentOS
5 1 (0.99%) Solaris
5 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.99%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (51.49%) DevOps
2 46 (45.54%) CI/CD
3 28 (27.72%) Agile
4 24 (23.76%) Containerisation
5 22 (21.78%) Test Automation
6 17 (16.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (16.83%) Roadmaps
6 17 (16.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (15.84%) Migration
7 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (14.85%) Identity Access Management
9 14 (13.86%) API Testing
9 14 (13.86%) Data Ingestion
9 14 (13.86%) ETL
10 13 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (12.87%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (12.87%) Test Strategy
11 12 (11.88%) GitOps
12 11 (10.89%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 33 (32.67%) Python
2 29 (28.71%) Java
3 25 (24.75%) SQL
4 12 (11.88%) PowerShell
5 10 (9.90%) Bash
6 6 (5.94%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.95%) PHP
8 4 (3.96%) Cypher
8 4 (3.96%) Go
8 4 (3.96%) Groovy
8 4 (3.96%) Scala
8 4 (3.96%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.98%) Bicep
9 2 (1.98%) C#
9 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (4.95%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.96%) Degree
3 3 (2.97%) CEH
3 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.97%) GIAC
3 3 (2.97%) GWAPT
3 3 (2.97%) SAP Certification
4 2 (1.98%) CISM
4 2 (1.98%) CISSP
5 1 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.99%) CCA
5 1 (0.99%) CCSK
5 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.91%) QA
2 4 (3.96%) GDPR
2 4 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.96%) SLA
3 3 (2.97%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.97%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.99%) GRC
5 1 (0.99%) NIST
5 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (13.86%) Docker
2 11 (10.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.95%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.98%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.98%) KVM
4 2 (1.98%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.98%) vSphere
5 1 (0.99%) Ceph
5 1 (0.99%) NFS
5 1 (0.99%) QEMU
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.99%) XenApp
5 1 (0.99%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (31.68%) Kubernetes
2 23 (22.77%) Terraform
3 20 (19.80%) Ansible
4 8 (7.92%) Grafana
5 4 (3.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.98%) Argo
6 2 (1.98%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.99%) Kibana
7 1 (0.99%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.99%) logstash
7 1 (0.99%) Podman
7 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.99%) Puppet
7 1 (0.99%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 19 (18.81%) ServiceNow
3 16 (15.84%) Google
4 12 (11.88%) F5
5 9 (8.91%) Oracle
6 6 (5.94%) OpenAI
6 6 (5.94%) Splunk
7 5 (4.95%) VMware
8 4 (3.96%) SAP
9 3 (2.97%) Alibaba
9 3 (2.97%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.97%) Cisco
9 3 (2.97%) Imperva
9 3 (2.97%) MuleSoft
9 3 (2.97%) NetApp
10 2 (1.98%) Delphix
10 2 (1.98%) Informatica
10 2 (1.98%) Okta
10 2 (1.98%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.98%) Red Hat